Safety retaining means



J. FEINBERG.

SAFETY RETAINING MEANS.

, APPLICATION FILED FEB. 8, 1921- 1,404,946.

Patented Jan. 31, 1922.

UNITED STATES.

PATENT OFFICE.

JACO B FEINBERG; OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

' SAFETY RETAINING MEANS.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JAooB .FEINBERG, a citizen of the United States, residing at 44;? Claremont Parkway, New York, in the county of Bronx and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Safety Retaining Means for persons who may lose their balance while working on scaifolds, also for housewives leaning out of windows when hanging out clothes for drying, and for similar purposes.

The objects of my improvement are:

First to provide a safety retaining means, which may be readily applied to and readily removed from the person using the same.

Second: To have said safety retaining means reliable and convenient.

Third: To have said safety retaining means light, simple, durable and inexpensive.

I attain these objects by the device illustrated in the accompanying drawings or by any mechanical equivalent or obvious modification of the same.

In the drawings Fig. 1 is a front elevation of my safety retaining means, shown as assembled, but with the plate 20, hereinafter described, removed from its place of attachment, and with the chain 22 broken in the middle of its length.

Fig. 2 is a plan or top view of my safety retaining means, omitting the wall plate 20 and chain 22, and showing only part of the chain 19.

Fig. 3 is an end view of the loops 11'12' and 1112 of my safety retaining means.

Similar numerals refer to similar parts throughout the several views? 11 and 12 designate the lower parts and 11' and 12' the upper parts of a pair of sections which form loops and which may be made preferably of steel, and of which the section 11--11' may be pivotally connected to the section 1212' by means of the pivot 13; the loops may then be closed by means of the split pin 1a joining the ends of the parts 11 and 12, thereby forming a figure similar to the numeral 8, of which the lower part 11-12 may be applied to encompass the leg above the ankle, while the upper part 11 12 of the figure, which has the form of a ring or eye, may be connected by means of the hook 17 to the chain 19.

18 is a plate spring on tongue connected to the hook 17 to prevent the disengagement thereof from the ring ll'-1 2'.

Specification of Letters Patent.

The chain 19 is shown in Fig. 1 as perma nently connected to the eye-plate 20, which may be secured to the lower part of a window or to the scaffold in any convenient position.

To make my safety retaining means applicable to persons having legs of different thicknesses, I provide extensions in the upper and lower parts of the sections forming the loops, which extensions are shown in Fig. l as overlapping each other; and the extensions in the upper parts 11 and 12 of the sections of the loops, are provided with the additional holes 16 and 15 respectively, for the split pin 1 1, whereby said loops may be increased in width, if desired.

I also provide the chain 22 of adequate length, which terminates at its outer end in the hook 23, while its inner end is connected to the eye plate 20, which chain may be employed to encompass the other leg of the person, the greater length of the chain allowing the requisite freedom of motion to the person.

It is evident that my safety retaining means may very readily be applied, and it may be readily removed when desired, and that it cannot get loose of itself.

Many changes could be made in the details of my safety retaining means without departing from the main scope of my invention.

I do not, therefore, restrict myself to the details as shown in the drawings; but I intend to include also all mechanical equivalents and reasonably obvious modifications of the same within the scope of my invention.

lVhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. In a safety retaining means for persons, loops consisting of two sections. each having the shape of the letter S, pivotally connectedto each other intermediate their ends, and detachably joined at one end thereof by means of a suitable pin, said sections forming two closed rings which form together the figure 8 extensions at the ends of said sections overlapping each other, thereby increasing the strength of said retaining means, the lower ring of said loops being adapted to enclose one leg of a person and the upper ring thereof adapted to be detachably locked to a stable object.

2. In a safety retaining means for persons a wall plate, a chain linked thereto, said chain terminating at its uter end in a hook,

Patented Jan. 31, 1922.

i Application filed February 8, 1921. Serial No. 443,391.

and loops having the form of the figure 8 detachably connected to said plate; said loops consisting of two sections, each l1tV' ing the shape of the letter S, pivot-ally connected to each other intermediate their ends and detachably joined at one end thereof, the lower ring of said loops being adapted to enclose one leg or a person, said chain being adapted to encompass the other leg of the personand to be detachably secured to itself by means of said hook.

3. In a safety retaining means for per sons loops consisting of tworsections, each having the shape of the letter S, pivotally connected to each other "intermediate their "ends and detachably joined at one end thereof by means of a suitable pin, said sections forming together the figure 8, extensions at the ends of said sections having holes thereinadjacent to said pin adapted JACOB" FEI NBERG. I 

